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submitted 16 hours ago by Quokka@quokk.au to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

As part of the devs farewell message on their site, they have included malicious code to make each visitor sends 2,000 requests to the dbzer0 servers in an attempt to DDOS and take the instance offline.

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[-] Ethanol@pawb.social 6 points 9 hours ago

I guess it's just a pattern to easily get a number between a and b, going (b - a + 1). Or maybe this is just vibecoded lol

Seeing (100 - 1 + 1) definitely bothers my brain lmao

Looking closer, the whole calculation bothers me now. Why do floor() + 1 instead of just using ceil ... arghhhh

this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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